Touch Wood Rings.
Custom made wooden rings individually and meticulously hand crafted by British Columbia artist and craftsman David Finch; pioneer of the bent wood ring. Touch Wood Rings - off grid and online for fifteen years. Welcome here and thanks for dropping by.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Ancient Kauri wood ring with a black wood band

Ancient Kauri wood.

One new story and one very old story.

A lovely couple from Ohio contacted us a few months ago and asked if David would make them rings of Kauri wood. The couple specially ordered the wood from ancientwood.com and had the wood shipped directly to David.

The ring you see here is David's first kauri wood ring; his test ring.

Dusty and Erin's rings will be kauri wood with bird's eye maple liners.

Now for the old story. This Touch Wood Ring is crafted from reclaimed ancient Kauri timber that is aged from 30,ooo to more than 50,ooo years old. Ancient Kauri wood comes from forests buried at the time of the last Ice Age, which are located on the Northern Island of New Zealand. It is called the World's Oldest workable timber. Read The Kauri Story on the Ancientwood website. These points are from their pamphlet.

The harvesting of Ancient Kauri is a very ecologically friendly practice.

No standing trees are cut

These incredible trees are excavated from underground and any disturbed land is carefully restored.

Every tree grew for more than 1200 years.

They stopped growing over 50,000 years ago.

This ancient Kauri wood is pretty spectacular stuff and it fills us with a sense of wonder to hold something so very very old.